Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science - Paperback

by Donna J. Haraway (Author)

Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.

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The themes of race, sexuality, gender, nation, family, and class have been written into the body of nature in western life sciences since the eighteenth century. In the wake of post-World War II decolonization, local and global feminist and anti-racist movements, nuclear and environmental threats, and broad consciousness of the fragility of earth's webs of life, nature remains a crucially important and deeply contested myth and reality.

Author Biography

Douglas F. Morgan, Kent S. Robinson, Dennis Strachota, James A. Hough